Firefighters were busy on Lake Michigan again Sunday amid the blazing heat, responding to a boat fire near The Playpen close ...

Experts are urging people to take extra caution when on Lake Michigan after multiple tragic incidents happened in the water ...

At 7:30 a.m. it crossed over Chicago and blew out onto Lake Michigan at nearly 55 miles an hour, leading Joseph Pecararo to assume the worst of the day’s weather was over.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot signed a 100-year agreement that will transport treated Lake Michigan water to Joliet, Illinois, and five of its surrounding suburbs, starting in 2030.

Last month, Chicago struck a deal to sell Lake Michigan water to a city 35 miles southwest of the city. The price tag: $1 billion. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot signed a 100-year agreement that ...

Jera Slaughter stands outside her high-rise apartment building impacted by erosion from Lake Michigan on October 14, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois. Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP / Getty Images via Grist.

Ashok Selvam is the James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and has ...

Releases of floodwater into Lake Michigan are exceedingly rare, with the last one occurring in 2020.Engineers reversed the flow of the river in the early 1900’s to both allow drinking water to ...

Venezuelan migrant families in Chicago find comfort in Lake Michigan Asylum-seekers from Maracaibo remember blissful times back home before their country fell into crisis.

Every year, 11.6 million pounds of plastic trash makes its way into Lake Michigan, Chicago’s largest source of drinking water. Even as the city tries to tackle this issue, it means that ...

Plastic has been found in the corpses of elephants in Sri Lanka, in human breast milk, in fish in Lake Michigan, in bottled water, in Antarctica.You’ve probably heard of the Great Pacific ...